The history and use of New Zealand's native plants

The Meaning of Trees Book

When I first began this blog in 2014, I was completing my undergraduate studies in biology at the University of Auckland. In the back of my mind, I had always dreamed of turning the blog into a book, but didn’t know how to make that a reality. I was hopeful that maybe a publisher would happen to stumble across the blog and see the potential.
So when the publisher at Harper Collins NZ sent me a message to say they thought the blog would make a great book, I couldn’t believe it and had to double-check it wasn’t spam! Since then, I’ve been working for the past year or so writing brand new plant articles and updating and improving old posts to be included in the book – along with a history of New Zealand told through the lens of our native plants.

I am incredibly excited to share the book with you all – it’s due out in stores in early May 2019.

There’s a tremendous amount of people that I owe a huge debt of gratitude to for helping making this book a reality, but for now I just wanted to say a huge thank you to every one of you that have read, promoted and supported the blog.

Hello hello, I stumbled across you on Instagram, love what you’re doing!!! Do you have a date for the release of your book? I would love to buy a copy as a gift for someone special whose birthday is coming up.
I hope the book is a massive success 🙂

> meaningoftrees posted: “I am very excited to announce the publication of: > The Meaning of Trees – the history and use of New Zealand’s native plants. > When I first began this blog in 2014, I was completing my undergraduate > studies in biology at the University of Auckland. In t” >

Robert … We love your book thank you. It is beautifully presented and you are wonderfully knowledgeable and insightful about trees. We have created a very large native garden if you would like to look at it, search for anaturalgarden as one word to see the blog.

Hi Gillian & Roderick,
Thank you so much for getting in touch!
That’s such nice feedback thank you. Your property looks incredible – such a diverse range of natives you have in your garden, its great to see. Amazing that the garden was a paddock with pine trees only 23 years ago – Amazing job!